Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet

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Paperback. Pub Date :2009-08-06 Pages: 480 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK Eating the Sun is the story of the discovery of a miracle:. The source of life itself From the intricacies of its molecular processes to the beauty of the nature that it supports. Eating the Sun is a wondering tribute to the extraordinary process that has allowed plants to power the earth for billions of years.Photosynthesis is the most mundane of miracles It surrounds us in our gardens and parks and countryside;. even our cityscapes are shot through with trees It makes nature green - the signature of the pigments with which plants harvest the sun;. wherever nature offers us greenery. the molecular machinery of photosynthesis is making oxygen. energy and organic matter from the raw material of sunlight . water and carbon dioxide.We rarely give the green machinery that brings about this t...